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One can read some of these documents for themselves:

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Kurt Volker, Ukraine and a Turbulent End in the Trump Administration
The New York Times      By Annie Karni       Oct. 5, 2019

WASHINGTON — “Please don’t publish this letter,” Kurt D. Volker, a former career foreign service officer, pleaded in 2016 with Eliot A. Cohen and Eric Edelman, two former Republican officials leading a “Never Trump” letter-writing movement.

Their arguments were not wrong, Mr. Volker told them, as both sides remember it. But he argued that Donald J. Trump might actually win the election. And Mr. Volker, who had seen his foreign service career cut short after a new President Barack Obama swiftly removed him as the United States ambassador to NATO, was not going to blacklist himself from a senior post in another administration.

He got a lot more than he wanted.

Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/us/politics/trump-ukraine-volker.html